Professional Pilot

MAY 13, 2024

SID (Intl, Amílcar Cabral, Cape Verde) offers a long runway and is a good technical stop on this route. Operational peculiarities The NAT-OTS is unique in the world, as it changes twice daily to provide optimum routes for the main traffic flows, with due regard to the winds and turbulence. The North Atlantic is a non-radar environment.

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Pilot's Life Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Take-off involves accelerating along a runway to achieve lift-off speed, followed by climbing to a designated cruising altitude. Landing requires a controlled descent and approach to the runway, culminating in touchdown and deceleration. Unlike airplanes, they can hover, move sideways, and land without a runway.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 22, 2024

It operates both cargo and passenger transport. For the cargo side, Sky Express aircargo was established at a later date, joining venture with Finaval Group and established routes between Europe and the Far East. Currently the airport has 2 terminals, the main and the satallite terminal and uses 2 runways, runway 03L/21R and 03R/21R.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MAY 20, 2024

Currently the airport has 2 terminals with a 3rd starting operation in the near future, it has an impressive 5 runways (runway 17L/35R, 17R/35L, 16L/34R, 16R/34L and 15/33). There was turbulence from time to time and the seatbelt sign came on a few times. At this point, we started rolling down the runway.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Currently the airport has 4 terminals with 3 passengers terminals and 1 cargo complex. Blue Dart's Boeing 757-200F was being towed to the cargo hanger. This time, both of the engines were started after pushed back so no PTU (Power Transfer Unit) - 'barking' noise was heard during our taxi to the runway. We entered the runway 25.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

JANUARY 14, 2024

Announcement was made by the Captain about our flight which we would to expect some turbulence especially along the way but no mention about the flight delay. Once we were on our way, we flew through a bit of turbulence but once the weather was better, the seat belt sign was turned off. What's provided for each passenger ?

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For the flight itself, after take off at Delhi, we encountered quite a bit of turbulence and also more turbulence happened during the crossing through the Bay of Bengal. I slept about 2 hours but I did wake up a few times due to turbulence. On final approach onto runway 20R. Vistara's logo on the blanket. Rise and Shine!

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Once that was done, we spent about 1/4 of our flight time taxing to runway 20L. There was quite a bit of turbulence in the middle of the flight but landing in Penang was a smooth affair. The taxi to runway 20L seem to take forever. Currently, only 2 runways are in operation and that is runway 20L/02R and 20R/02L.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It is possible for the Airbus A321neo-LR to fly from Bahrain to Singapore but fortunately, that won't happen because of the healthy load and cargo of this route which the A321 might struggle especially flying through headwind and besides the 787 Dreamliner is better suited for 7 hour flights and longer. Rolling down the way, off we go!

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

MARCH 13, 2025

Take off was slightly turbulent but eventually the weather improved after flying out of Japan. What is missing is a proper drink holder that can hold the drink firmly especially during turbulence. Photo: EPS1) After 10 minutes of taxi, we were near the threshold of the runway. At the threshold, we were cleared to depart.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The door connects to the cargo section of the aircraft. Hardly any turbulence during this flight. We landed on runway 21 at Seletar Airport. The sole runway is capable of handling these aircraft. Greeted by the not-so-friendly crew, I made my way to the seat with about 90% of the seats taken. The take off was very noisy!

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

On that day, there were three commercial flights and a cargo flight flying from Taipei to Singapore and would return to Taipei after a short layover. However, he mentioned that there was turbulence along the way, not a surprise especially June to October period is usually the typhoon season and bad weather is quite common.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 14, 2025

image_title Including its cargo division, Cathay operates 180 aircraft. On the cargo side, it operates a fleet of 20 747 freighters, although it also has orders in for the forthcoming A350F. image_title That incident occurred in August 2016, when a Boeing 777-300 impacted the runway during an attempted go-around in Dubai (DXB).

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Ask the Pilot

AUGUST 5, 2024

Together, this dictates higher takeoff and landing speeds — which, in turn, increases the amount of required runway. What all of that means for travelers is that your flight might be weight-restricted and unable to take a full load of people or cargo. How much so will vary with the temperature and runway length.

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Professional Pilot

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Fortunately, there is a runway at the end of every ILS. If an airport has a single runway, its always possible it may close. Basically, I diverted to an airport with a long runway to accommodate a long landing run in the event of brake loss too. Ive also deviated for airport closures due to incapacitated aircraft on the runway.

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Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This airport also handles more A380 aircraft than any other airports and the city of Dubai also has a secondary airport (DWC) Al Maktoum International Airport which serves just a handful of airlines and is a hub for Emirates Cargo. There was turbulence from time to time but nothing bad to mention.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 30, 2024

First, there was a shocking runway collision in Tokyo on the second day of the year. Japan Airlines flight 516 was landing at Haneda Airport (HND) when the Airbus A350-900 collided with a Japan Coast Guard DHC Dash 8 that was already on the runway. At least 71 people were injured, with dozens requiring treatment in intensive care.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The contents of this article have been limited to commercial aircraft performing public transport flights, whether carrying cargo or passengers (or both). On January 2, 2024, a Japan Airlines (JAL) Airbus A350-900 operating a flight from Sapporo to Tokyo collided with a Japan Coast Guard DHC-8-300 on the runway at Tokyo-Haneda Airport (HND).

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Vintage Aviation News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The recovery team arrived at the crash site with hand and power saws to cut the Lightning into manageable sections to push into cargo pallets and be pulled with a cable and pulleys onto a landing craft-style barge. To fly that low would mean running into one of the ships while attempting to lower themselves onto the runway.

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